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Created on: April 08, 2009
The laws of nature are not bound by our own
It shall retaliate with vengeance and death
Yet we insist that it transform itself
As if our desires give life and breath
We continue to manipulate our environment
Rather than adapt ourselves to meet its needs
Do we honestly think that it will succumb
To our policies and humanistic greed
We stand upon the mountain of civility
As we capture creatures and make them our own
We suffocate miles upon millions of miles
With concrete structures of progress shown
We like to believe that we are righteous
With our superior intelligence in our hand
As we stake claim and kill one another
For ownership of vast waters and bountiful land
With technology that is advancing
Our pride and ego becomes much too strong
We shall slowly lose our humanity
As science extracts the right from wrong
Someday we will realize the earth is dying
As it will have nothing left that it can give
Its air and its water will become toxic to all
As we have destroyed what it needed to live
But perhaps it is not too late to change
As natures wonders are for all of us to share
We simply need to remind ourselves
That the earth must be handled with care
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by I William
The laws of nature are not bound by our own
It shall retaliate with vengeance and death
Yet we insist that it transform itself
As
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